: Suggests that individuals cannot properly place remembered events in the correct temporal sequence.
: LLMs may statistically blend uncertain data points into a single, confident-sounding but false response.
: Beyond a memory error, it can serve critical psychological functions such as maintaining self-coherence (a stable self-narrative) and self-monitoring in relation to the world.
Researchers have proposed several theories to explain why the brain "fills in the gaps" with false data:






